Hi there, I am AK. Photography has always had a lingering presence throughout my life. With framed posters of Ansel Adams hanging on the walls of the house I grew up in, without even knowing it, my parents instilled the art form of photography at an early age. Unlike most artists, I have no formal ...

6 continents, 17 countries, 25 metropolitan cities and 4 villages. Travel is life. It is the single driving force that is the jumping off point to experience cultures that inspires me to ideate concepts.

My obsession with symmetry and vibrant color palettes seems to be a consistent pattern in my composition and aesthetic. To challenge myself, I approach each frame in either trying to evolve this style or completely straying away from it to discover something new.

With a wide spectrum of subjects from Syrian refugee children to random personalities from the streets to in-studio shoots of friends, I feel as though candid portraits make for a more interesting photograph as it captures truth in the moment. My approach to studio portraitures is to create a specific moment or experience that the viewer …

2016 marked the deadliest year on record concerning the refugee crisis and more than half of that statistic was made up by Syrians. For my 34th birthday, I decided to take a trip back to Istanbul, Turkey as this seemed to be a concentrated area of where a lot of refugees would land. Before booking my …

For as long as I can remember, sneakers have always had a presence throughout my life. Being the first generation child of an immigrant family, my upbringing did not allow for luxuries like sneakers. My mother would always give me a choice, we can go to Payless and buy 3 pairs, or I can buy …